These both look like exactly what I had in mind - thank you, they've been added to my list!

Does anyone have any good book recommendations on social media? Scope can be anything - historical, technical, political - just looking to understand what's out there

Does anyone have any good book recommendations on social media? Scope can be anything - historical, technical, political - just looking to understand what's out there

Travelling down from a very chilly Newcastle for the Experimental Psychology Society meeting over the next few days - come check out my poster on VR go-go arms on Thursday!

PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk

More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...

#cogsci #neuroskyence

Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”

Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

VR now definitely hits that sweet spot for a gimmicky, affordable but fun tech gift - think Rock Band, Guitar Hero etc.

Relax, grown-ups: VR is doing fine It’s very different from what we all had imagined it to be.

Paywalled, but the gist is that teenagers (and younger children) using VR more and more - driven by black Friday sales, headsets seen as a good Christmas gift, and lots of social free-to-play apps like Gorilla Tag, UG, VRchat www.theverge.com/column/84235...

We're finding that many participants don't quite get what we mean by sense of body ownership / agency and related concepts, and want to put everyone on same page before a VR body manipulation - curious if anything standardised is already out there!

#embodiment or #bodyrepresentation researchers - are there any standardised instructions or procedures for describing or showing embodiment concepts like body ownership/dis-ownership, agency etc. to participants? Any resources would be helpful! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Join us this week for our first international dissociation research conference! Free, online and featuring some fantastic keynote speakers with talks taking place across 3 time-zones! Register here: disconnected-network.com/2025-online-...

This is a seriously cool effect! It strikes me that people might harm themselves trying to "straighten out" their fingers - e.g. by bending their finger back too far. Do you ever see that?

Congrats! Good luck with the new role 🍾

The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:

Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!

Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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A week of inspiring research & exciting chats with new and old friends at #IMRF2025! Presented our latest work on visuotactile crossmodal congruency effect in children 👾

Thank you @imrf.bsky.social ! Was an honour to help run microphones for such cool talks 🫡

#IMRF2025 An amazing week hosting @imrf.bsky.social here at @durham-university.bsky.social

#IMRF2025 Group picture just dropped!!
Can you find yourself?

#WhereIsWaldo? #multisensorySquad
#bestResearchCommunity
#sensesUnite

Really enjoyed speaking at #imrf2025 today on some of our findings showing changes to embodiment and reach kinematics after use of an extendable VR arm @imrf.bsky.social

Thanks Laura!

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

Robots, virtual reality, heartbeat detection, exoskeletons, third thumbs, body illusions, computational models - it's a pretty cool field we all study

Had a lovely time in Utrecht - what a beautiful city. Thanks #BRNet2025! I look forward to carrying on some of the discussions back in Durham at IMRF in a couple of weeks time

Attending the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. Will be presenting my work on interoception in autism tomorrow. Come and say hi!

Can BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? | Thomas Chazelle

Can #BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? If you're in Utrecht in the next few days and even if you're not coming, feel free to share and, most of all, comment!

@bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

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@bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

And I'll also be talking about my experiences applying for funding at the early career researcher panel. Thanks for the invite @lucysta02475610.bsky.social & Lara Coelho!

a cartoon character is holding a fishing rod and has the word hmm on his chest . Alt: Inspector gadget, a cartoon character, scratching his chin in a thoughtful expression with an extendable arm from his hat

On Friday I'll be presenting a poster describing some of the great research by @dorothycowie.bsky.social and Leif Johanssen investigating how children and adults adapt to an extendable arm in VR, along with our future plans to expand on that work

On my way to Utrecht for #BRnet2025! Excited to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.

Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline 11th July. Please share!

📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣

More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !